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D019644. MedlinePlus. 002975. [ edit on Wikidata] Hip replacement is a surgical procedure in which the hip joint is replaced by a prosthetic implant, that is, a hip prosthesis. [ 1] Hip replacement surgery can be performed as a total replacement or a hemi/semi (half) replacement.
Retton was born with hip dysplasia, a condition that her years as a competitive gymnast aggravated. After experiencing increased pain from the condition, she underwent hip replacement surgery on her left hip in her mid-thirties. [citation needed] Retton lived in Houston, Texas, [40] until 2009, when her family returned to West Virginia. She ...
Hip fracture. A hip fracture is a break that occurs in the upper part of the femur (thigh bone), at the femoral neck or (rarely) the femoral head. [ 2] Symptoms may include pain around the hip, particularly with movement, and shortening of the leg. [ 2] Usually the person cannot walk. [ 3]
The most common type seen, approximately 70% of the time, is the mixed type. [13] A complicating issue is that some of the radiographic findings of FAI have also been described in asymptomatic subjects. [14] Current literature suggests that the cam type of impingement is associated with the development of hip osteoarthritis. [15]
A surgeon places a bone graft into position during a limb salvage. Bone grafting is a surgical procedure that replaces missing bone in order to repair bone fractures that are extremely complex, pose a significant health risk to the patient, or fail to heal properly. Some small or acute fractures can be cured without bone grafting, but the risk ...
Birth certificate of Jeanne Calment. Calment was born on 21 February 1875 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence. [1] Some of her close family members also had an above-average lifespan as her older brother, François (1865–1962), lived to the age of 97, her father, Nicolas (1837–1931), who was a shipbuilder, 93, and her mother, Marguerite Gilles (1838–1924), who was from a family of ...
Louis Henri, duc de Bourbon. Prince of the Blood, son of the Prince de Condé and father of the Duc d'Enghien; emigrated. Louis Joseph de Bourbon. Prince of the Blood; composed the Brunswick Manifesto . Charles de Bouvens. Orator who had to flee the French Revolution due to his conservative views. Louis de Breteuil.
François Bayrou, UDF party leader. Léon Blum, politician, Socialist party leader, prime minister. José Bové, anti-globalization activist, altermondialist. Aristide Briand. Jacques Chirac, politician, member of center-right wing party, former city mayor of Paris, two-term French president. Georges Clemenceau.